期刊
NANO ENERGY
卷 33, 期 -, 页码 21-28出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.01.020
关键词
Photo-assisted electrodeposition; Core-shell nanowire arrays; Layered double hydroxides; Photoelectrochemical water splitting
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1462118]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [buctrc201506]
- 973 Program [2014CB932102]
A highly-matched semiconductor/cocatalyst is crucial to enhance the bulk charge separation and surface reaction kinetics of the photoelectrode in the solar water splitting system. In this work, well-aligned, hierarchical zinc-iron layered double hydroxide (LDH) is in situ synthesized on the surface of TiO2 by a facile and effective photo-assisted electrodeposition(PED) method. An experimental-computational combination study reveals that the photogenerated holes of TiO2 tend to travel to ZnFe-LDH which enhances the bulk charge separation; while ZnFe-LDH acts as a cocatalyst which accelerates the surface water oxidation reaction. The resulting TiO2/ZnFe-LDH-PE photoanode exhibits a largely enhanced PEC performance: the photocurrent density at 1.0 V vs. RHE is 2.29 and 1.31 times higher than that of the pristine TiO2 and TiO2/ZnFe-LDH-E (prepared by a conventional electrosynthesis method) photoanode, with 150 mV and 50 mV of negative shift for onset potential. This can be ascribed to the enhanced interface interaction and highly-matched band structure between ZnFe-LDH and TiO2. It is expected that this strategy can be extended to other heterostructures for advanced performance in the fields of energy conversion and storage.
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